This month’s newsletter is a bit different. It includes the names of everyone who contributed financially to our work between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2008. And we have taken this opportunity to reflect on last year as well as look out at what may come in the year ahead. We include news too, of course.

However, before reading the articles, we hope you will examine the list of individuals who gave generously to support our work last year. The 1,936 listed there each helped provide the Center’s most important resource. Individual contributions provide the unrestricted funding that supports our most crucial, timely and innovative work.

Each of the last three years, the list of Center donors has grown. We will work hard to ensure that happens again this year. If you have not yet given in 2009, we hope you will make a gift today and renew your newsletter for another year.